Donald Trump acts as if the campaign never happened: but his voters still want him to build that wall

The first ever TV interview with president-elect Donald J Trump was sponsored by Viagra. Welcome to America. The conversation itself was rather soft – a friendly chat with veteran CBS journalist Lesley Stahl designed to tease out the kind of commander-in-chief that Trump will be. The answer seems to be a more regular Republican than his critics fear.

The background to the interview is growing unrest: protests in major cities, liberals proclaiming that Trump is not their president. Trump needs to reassure his base that he’s 100 per cent on their side while reassuring the wider public that he’s not just about that base. So he told anyone who was attacking minorities to "stop it".

He also told Stahl that he won’t challenge gay marriage. He probably won’t appoint a special prosecutor to hound the Clintons (he called them “good people”).